And its not a healthy addiction either. I’ve been playing alot of it recently and been mostly breaking even/losing. I think I pokerEV’d it and I was running slightly bad but I’m also making lots of clear mistakes and I’m sure loads of mistakes that I don’t even know about. I’ve been watching some more videos recently and hoping to figure out this game soon so I can start crushing it.
Anyways I haven’t posted in awhile cause I feel like every post I make is “look at my results” or “these are my goals for x time period” and feel like it’s getting pretty boring/played out. Maybe I will stop posting results soon who knows. Having said that I had a very good January clearing like $19k not including rakeback. Something like +$20k in holdem over 25k hands and -$1k in PLO over 10k hands. Pics don’t include laptop hands.
Yea so opportunity cost wise my time spent playing PLO is kinda a waste/depressing to think about but I’m getting kinda obsessed with beating it and I’ve really nitted up my game selection recently at 5/10 NLH and grinding 2/4 NLH is just REALLY REALLY boring for me. So these two factors combined results in me playing plo alot when the higher hold em games aren’t very good which seems to be alot recently, sadface :(. Games are definitely getting tougher PLO wise as well. Just 6 months ago I remember playing and people would fold to 3 bets literally 0% of the time, but people seem to be figuring it out now and folding some of their junk sometimes but having said that games are still great IMO but I’m just not very good either yet.
One thing I’ve been struggling with recently is maintaining good focus and concentration when playing lower stakes. Ideally I’d like to grind more 2/4 because it’s lower variance, I can beat it for good money and it’s just the smart thing to do to maximize my hourly alot of the time. The problem I’m finding now is that I just don’t get excited/interested in it when playing and find myself bored playing my B game. I recently got done reading “Broke” by Brandon Adams (which was a decent read, it’s only 90 pages and took my like an hour) but anyways in it he talks about how poker players always build up their roll and continue to increase stakes until they are playing in games they are no longer favorites in. One of his friends he says is a favorite in just about any hold em game but the ones he sits in are some of the highest limits spread and he’s likely a small dog/breakeven player in most of the games he sits in. I don’t want to be that guy. At some point I’m going to have to stop going up in stakes I just don’t know when that is is the problem. This is not to say I will not continue to move up over time, I just think I need to realize at some point my improvement as a player is going to taper off quite a bit which I think is happening now in NLH and I need to realize that doing the boring grind 6 tables for a living for long hours a day facing no interesting spots at all to pay the mortgage but somehow trick myself into staying focused/interested while playing is a real possibility that I am going to have to deal with at some point. Right now though PLO keeps me sane/interested and thankfully NLH is still there when games are good to subsidizes my addiction and helps pay the bills.
Also: I’m looking for vegas house and roommates for wsop. I made a post in cardrunners vegas life section so check it out or leave a comment here if you’re looking for either/or.
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